How to Use detention in a Sentence

detention

noun

• The jail is only used for brief detentions.
• He got detention for being late to class.
• They both got three detentions this year.
• The detention of the two activists is a sign of the times.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 23 Oct. 2023
• The third bit, of course, leans into a school/detention joke.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 31 Mar. 2023
• The detention had been extended in August through at least Nov. 30, the press service of the court said at the time.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2023
• Jackson noted that the All-Star Game would take place on the 143rd day of Griner’s detention.
  — New York Times, 7 July 2022
• And in the case of the current ICE raids, this can result in scary detentions and arrests of the wrong people.
  — Cindy Cohn, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2025
• While held in detention there for a month and a half, she was given only a bit of bread to eat each day.
  — Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2022
• The pair have not talked for the entirety of Griner’s detention in Russia.
  — Chloe Peterson, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2022
• My team had been told I’d been transferred from detention but didn’t know when or where.
  — Brittney Griner, TIME, 3 May 2024
• That youth is due back in court for a detention hearing on May 15 and also may be tried as an adult.
  — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 3 May 2024
• The judge did not make a ruling on their detention Friday.
  — Byluke Barr, ABC News, 8 Apr. 2022
• And now Guo will spend the night in jail, after pleading not guilty and consenting to detention.
  — Bob Van Voris, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2023
• Why is there such a strong reaction to Khan’s detention?
  — Riazat Butt, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2023
• In 2016, Mitchell ended up at the Vel Phillips detention center after a fight.
  — Talis Shelbourne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2022
• Every old farm field, railroad right of way, and shopping center detention basin is chock full of the stinky trees.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 22 Mar. 2024
• His detention of about two years was the longest for an American.
  — Time, 19 July 2023
• He had been moved to the Lauderdale County detention center to await trial for the murder charge.
  — Victoria Albert, CBS News, 5 May 2022
• Up to 1 million Uyghurs are being held in detention camps in the Xinjiang region.
  — Matt Burgess, Wired, 2 Feb. 2022
• In the early years of the detention operation, some of the youngest prisoners were teenagers.
  — Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
• At least two journalists have been killed and others tortured while in detention, the group said.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 Feb. 2022
• The Lee brothers are still in detention, but Beaufort and Little were released on bond.
  — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 1 July 2022
• Brindley asked that his client to be sent to home detention for an unspecified amount of time until the threat is gone.
  — Christie D’zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2025
• The two staffers may be a combination of one deputy and one detention deputy, but never two unarmed deputies.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Aug. 2023
• The protests in Iran, sparked by the Sept. 16 death of a 22-year-old woman after her detention by the country’s morality police, weigh heavy on her.
  — Robert Scheer, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Dec. 2022
• More than a million have been sent to detention centers, forced to denounce Islam and swear fealty to Xi and the party.
  — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 9 Dec. 2022
• His wife, Vida, also a U.S. citizen, was in Iran at the time of his detention and was barred from leaving the country.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• Most violent crimes are still eligible for detention and cash bail.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
• Bell appeared on felony child endangerment charges on Wednesday before a judge, who denied a detention petition and allowed the woman to go home pending trial following the boy’s death.
  — William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025